The scale of destruction in the city of Pervomaysk, Luhansk Oblast, recalls wartime Grozny. Such devastation is not to be found in either Donetsk or Luhansk, not in Debaltseve and not even in Ilovaisk, which suffered heavy artillery fire during the summer's fighting.
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Echo Moskvy: Ukraine’s forgotten city destroyed by war
An elderly woman sits outside a damaged building in Pervomaisk, some 50 kms west of Lugansk, on Sept. 28, 2014.
